Mr.
Barbecue-Smith arrived in time for tea on Saturday afternoon. He was a short and corpulent man, with a very
large head and no neck. In his earlier
middle age he had been distressed by this absence of neck, but was comforted by
reading in Balzac’s “Louis Lambert” that all the world’s great men have been
marked by the same peculiarity, and for a simple and obvious reason: Greatness
is nothing more or less than the harmonious functioning of the faculties of the
head and heart; the shorter the neck, the more closely these two organs
approach one another; argal… It was
convincing.
(from Crome Yellow
by Aldous Huxley)
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